Charles Le Guin

Charles Alfred Le Guin (1927 – January 4, 2025) was an American historian of France.

Life Le Guin was born in Macon, Georgia.

Partly of French ancestry, Le Guin was brought up in Macon, attending public schools and then Mercer University. His bachelor's degree, majoring in History and English Literature, was interrupted by service in the U.S. Navy, but, through the G.I. Bill, he was able to complete the degree and then take a master's degree in history at Northwestern University, graduating in December. In 1953 he travelled to Paris as a Fulbright Scholar; on the voyage he met Ursula K. Le Guin, marrying her a few months later. He has also been thought to be an inspiration for Ursula Le Guin's early story "April in Paris", in which "a burnt-out professor on a year's leave in Paris finds it a distinct relief to time-travel to fifteenth-century Paris, where he meets the woman of his dreams".

On June 10, 2024, the Charles A. and Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency was established.

Works Roland de la Platière; a public servant in the eighteenth century (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1966) A home-concealed woman: the diaries of Magnolia Wynn Le Guin, 1901-1913, edited by Charles A. Le Guin; foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990) In the balance: themes in global history, ed. by Candice L. Goucher, Charles A. Le Guin, Linda A. Walton (Boston, Mass.: McGraw-Hill, 1998)